Acting as Project Manager/Scrum Product Owner for a Telematics/IOT application project for a big off-road (agriculture and construction vehicles) OEM.

Scope of the project is the end-to-end Telematics application, from firmware running on the device installed in-vehicle to the web portal for vehicle data visualization and analysis. Main topic covered is fleet management in the Agriculture domain.

I am the key contact person towards the customer, and I internally manage a team of 15+ people. I am responsible for the final delivery to customer.

Mentor Graphics, Torino, Italy

Nov 2014May 2015

Application Engineer

Pre-sales technical activities in the area of Mentor Graphics Embedded Software Portfolio, with a special focus on AUTOSAR toolchain (Mentor Graphics Volcano tool suite) and AUTOSAR 4.x compliant OS and stack.

As part of a European Technical Sales Team, my main focus is towards the Italian Automotive Market.

I am responsible for driving technical evaluations of Mentor Graphics products within customers, to prepare technical proposals in response to Requests for Quotations, and to support customers in building up their toolchain in the context of E/E architecture and development.

Magneti Marelli Electronics, Venaria Reale (TO), Italy

Jul 2011Oct 2014

Domain Leader/Feature Reference

Working as part of the software team responsible to deliver the next generation BMW infotainment head units; I am working in a C embedded development environment, on a two microcontrollers system:

As part of the so called "Software Stability Team", I am responsible for driving all stability tickets reported on AUTOSAR OS based microcontroller from root-cause analysis to integration of the final software fix. I’ve been involved in a task force, lasted two months, driving all the needed activities to ensure the needed product stability (in terms of resets per 10000 Km) to have start of production granted by the customer. In this emergency based scenario, I was able to successfully drive to positive results a team of 5 developers.

Jan 2013 – Oct 2014

Responsible for driving the deployment of System Watchdog functionality, from design to development/testing and then to integration into final software baseline.

Goal of the activity is to ensure mass production with zero unrecovered hangs of the system.

Jul 2011 – Dec 2012

As Domain Leader for low level system functions (System Lifecycle/Power Management), I am responsible for managing all the activities and the engineers belonging to a specific functional area (I’ve been driving a team of up to 10 people). In particular, I am responsible to interact with the suppliers, to lead the internal development activities and to manage the relation with the customer. I am responsible for features planning and I have to guarantee their convergence in terms of time and quality. Defects reduction and bugs tracking are in my responsibility as well.

As part of this experience, I spent one year driving a team jointly composed by supplier and customer employees, working directly at BMW customer premises in Munich (Germany). In the context of this very challenging activity, I worked with Agile/SCRUM project management methodologies in order to deliver the expected results within though deadlines.

Sep 2010Jul 2011

Software Supplier Manager

Working as part of the team responsible to develop new Linux based infotainment head unit base platform.

As Software Supplier Manager I was responsible for reviewing software requirements and architectural models, in order to identify errors in specifications. Involved in the drafting of Statements of Work towards different software suppliers. I was responsible for planning and tracking the development activities of the suppliers in order to ensure on time deliveries

Jul 2009Jun 2010

After Sales Technical Engineer

Technical support and supervision activities for railway signaling systems (wayside field). Application maintenance of the proprietary software system named ICSC (Integrated Control Security Centre), based on Windows technologies. Configuration, test and integration of a monitoring system aimed at generating automated alerts through mail/sms in case of system misbehaviors, malfunctions, etc. (monitoring of servers’ variables, network status, etc.).

NORDUnet/NOC, Stockholm, Sweden

May 2008Oct 2008

Intern

Internship for the Master of Science final project entitled "Anomalies detection in backbone networks".

Development and configuration of an automated system aimed at detecting DoS/DDoS attacks against the core routers of NORDUnet backbone network. The system is able, through traffic patterns analysis, to detect attacks aimed at creating network malfunctions.